A Scottish breakfast

I use the word 'A' deliberately, as this is A breakfast....which I actually had for dinner!!! This can be a combination of things as easy to predict as the winning lottery numbers. Sausages can be lorne or links, bacon, eggs fried, poached or scrambled, puddings black, white or fruit, tattie scones are a given, some like beans, mushrooms, soda scone, even french toast or haggis. Serve with red sauce, brown sauce, pot of tea, cup of coffee, bottle of Bru. The list is endless.

Sausage, egg, potato scones, black pudding and beans!

Now I don't make my own sausages very often but tattie scones home cooked are amazing and these beans are ideal to get two of your kids five a day into them. So my dinner was Aberdeen Angus link sausages, home baked beans, fried egg, Stornaway black pudding, homemade potato scones and a big 'dod o' bread'. I won't go into the details of cooking those ingredients I bought, they're pretty self explanatory but if you fancy homemade beans and potato scones here you go.

Potato scones
500g potatoes mashed with butter
100g plain flour
1/2 tsp salt
Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl until they form a dough like consistency, this shouldn't be too dry. Place on a lightly floured surface and roll out until about 3mm thick and then cut into rounds the size of a side plate and cut these into 4. You can then cook on a girdle or in a pan with a little oil depending on your preference. These can just as happily be served with smoked salmon and creme fraiche on top as with a full cooked breakfast.

Home baked beans
1 tin haricot bins
1 tin chopped tomatoes
1/2tsp mild chilli powder
1/2tsp paprika
Splash balsamic vinegar
Squeeze tomato ketchup

Quite simply add everything to a pan, stir well, bring to a simmer and then reduce the heat as low as possible and leave until the tomato juice has concentrated (maybe 20 mins) then correct for seasoning. Now that's not much more difficult than opening a tin full of salty, sugary baked beans is it?